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Head: Dr. Andreas Rigling
The Research Unit explores the functional significance of forest diversity with respect to the ecology of managed and unmanaged forests. In order to assess the future development of forests in Switzerland and other temperate and mountainous regions, the Unit pursues a threefold research agenda:
- it performs basic research on forest diversity and its influence i) on forest dynamics, i.e. successional processes including tree growth, mortality and regeneration, and ii) on ecosystem goods and services;
- it studies the disturbance agents such as storms, avalanches, fires and insects with respect to their occurrences and their impact on forest dynamics, as well as the importance of forest diversity to resist disturbance;
- it investigates the impact of management operations on forest structure and development to improve sustainable forest management.
Based on the research outcomes, the Unit develops recommendations for best practice to sustain or improve forest products and services such as production of timber and other forest goods (e.g. mushrooms), catchment value, water quality, protection against natural hazards and pests, conservation and recreation. The infrastructure of the Research Unit includes extensive networks of forest study plots and laboratories for insects and fungi analysis.
The Unit has partners both within WSL and the wider scientific community. Stakeholders are mainly the forest services, forest owners and federal agencies.
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Publications
Li, R.; Yu, D.; Zhang, Y.; Han, J.; Zhang, W.; Yang, Q.; Gessler, A.; Li, M.; Xu, M.; Guan, X.; Chen, L.; Wang, Q.; Wang, S., 2022: Investment of needle nitrogen to photosynthesis controls the nonlinear productivity response of young Chinese fir trees to nitrogen deposition. Science of the Total Environment, 840: 156537 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156537
Jucker, T.; Fischer, F.J.; Chave, J.; Coomes, D.A.; Caspersen, J.; Ali, A.; Loubota Panzou, G.J.; Feldpausch, T.R.; Falster, D.; Usoltsev, V.A.; Haeni, M.; Zavala, M.A., 2022: Tallo: a global tree allometry and crown architecture database. Global Change Biology, 28, 17: 5254-5268. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16302
Büntgen, U., 2022: Scrutinizing tree-ring parameters for Holocene climate reconstructions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13, 4: e778 (5 pp.). doi: 10.1002/wcc.778
Didion‐Gency, M.; Gessler, A.; Buchmann, N.; Gisler, J.; Schaub, M.; Grossiord, C., 2022: Impact of warmer and drier conditions on tree photosynthetic properties and the role of species interactions. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.18384
Neff, F.; Lehmann, M.M.; Moretti, M.; Pellissier, L.; Gossner, M.M., 2022: Tracking sucking herbivory with nitrogen isotope labelling: lessons from an individual trait-based approach. Basic and Applied Ecology, 63: 104-114. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2022.06.004
Lei, L.; Xiao, W.; Zeng, L.; Liu, C.; Zhu, J.; Li, M., 2022: Phenological season-dependent temperature effects on soil respiration in a subtropical Pinus massoniana forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 323: 109086 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109086
Hacket-Pain, A.; Foest, J.J.; Pearse, I.S.; LaMontagne, J.M.; Koenig, W.D.; Vacchiano, G.; Bogdziewicz, M.; Caignard, T.; Celebias, P.; Van Dormolen, J.; Wohlgemuth, T.; Ascoli, D., 2022: MASTREE+: time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents. Global Change Biology, 28, 9: 3066-3082. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16130
Du, H.; Donat, M.G.; Zong, S.; Alexander, L.V.; Manzanas, R.; Kruger, A.; Choi, G.; Salinger, J.; He, H.S.; Li, M.; Fujibe, F.; Nandintsetseg, B.; Rehman, S.; Abbas, F.; Rusticucci, M.; Srivastava, A.; Zhai, P.; Lippmann, T.; Yabi, I.; ... Wu, Z., 2022: Extreme precipitation on consecutive days occurs more often in a warming climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103, 4: E1130-E1145. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0140.1
Chen, Y.; Rademacher, T.; Fonti, P.; Eckes-Shephard, A.H.; LeMoine, J.M.; Fonti, M.V.; Richardson, A.D.; Friend, A.D., 2022: Inter-annual and inter-species tree growth explained by phenology of xylogenesis. New Phytologist, 235, 3: 939-952. doi: 10.1111/nph.18195
Cernusak, L.A.; Barbeta, A.; Bush, R.T.; Eichstaedt, R.; Ferrio, J.P.; Flanagan, L.B.; Gessler, A.; Martín-Gómez, P.; Hirl, R.T.; Kahmen, A.; Keitel, C.; Lai, C.T.; Munksgaard, N.C.; Nelson, D.B.; Ogée, J.; Roden, J.S.; Schnyder, H.; Voelker, S.L.; Wang, L.; ... Cuntz, M., 2022: Do 2H and 18O in leaf water reflect environmental drivers differently?. New Phytologist, 235, 1: 41-51. doi: 10.1111/nph.18113
Gessler, A.; Ferretti, M.; Schaub, M., 2022: Editorial: forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.952232
Shen, M.; Wang, S.; Jiang, N.; Sun, J.; Cao, R.; Ling, X.; Fang, B.; Zhang, L.; Zhang, L.; Xu, X.; Lv, W.; Li, B.; Sun, Q.; Meng, F.; Jiang, Y.; Dorji, T.; Fu, Y.; Iler, A.; Vitasse, Y.; ... Fu, B., 2022: Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, doi: 10.1038/s43017-022-00317-5
Meusburger, K.; Trotsiuk, V.; Schmidt-Walter, P.; Baltensweiler, A.; Brun, P.; Bernhard, F.; Gharun, M.; Habel, R.; Hagedorn, F.; Köchli, R.; Psomas, A.; Puhlmann, H.; Thimonier, A.; Waldner, P.; Zimmermann, S.; Walthert, L., 2022: Soil–plant interactions modulated water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.16332
Staubli, F.; Imola, L.; Dauphin, B.; Molinier, V.; Pfister, S.; Piñuela, Y.; Schürz, L.; Sproll, L.; Steidinger, B.S.; Stobbe, U.; Tegel, W.; Büntgen, U.; Egli, S.; Peter, M., 2022: Hidden fairy rings and males - genetic patterns of natural Burgundy truffle (Tuber aestivum Vittad.) populations reveal new insights into its life cycle. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16131
Lembrechts, J.J.; Van den Hoogen, J.; Aalto, J.; Ashcroft, M.B.; De Frenne, P.; Kemppinen, J.; Kopecký, M.; Luoto, M.; Maclean, I.M.D.; Crowther, T.W.; Descombes, P.; Frei, E.R.; Meusburger, K.; Pellissier, L.; Pitteloud, C.; Risch, A.C.; Rixen, C.; Wipf, S.; Zellweger, F.; Lenoir, J., 2022: Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology, 28, 9: 3110-3144. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16060
Guidi, C.; Frey, B.; Brunner, I.; Meusburger, K.; Vogel, M.E.; Chen, X.; Stucky, T.; Gwiazdowicz, D.J.; Skubała, P.; Bose, A.K.; Schaub, M.; Rigling, A.; Hagedorn, F., 2022: Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long‐term irrigated dry pine forest. Global Change Biology, 28, 9: 3145-3160. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16122
Büntgen, U.; Arseneault, D.; Boucher, É.; Churakova (Sidorova), O.V.; Gennaretti, F.; Crivellaro, A.; Hughes, M.K.; Kirdyanov, A.V.; Klippel, L.; Krusic, P.J.; Linderholm, H.W.; Ljungqvist, F.C.; Ludescher, J.; McCormick, M.; Myglan, V.S.; Nicolussi, K.; Piermattei, A.; Oppenheimer, C.; Reinig, F.; ... Esper, J., 2022: Recognising bias in Common Era temperature reconstructions. Dendrochronologia, 74: 125982 (3 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125982
Holloway‐Phillips, M.; Baan, J.; Nelson, D.B.; Lehmann, M.M.; Tcherkez, G.; Kahmen, A., 2022: Species variation in the hydrogen isotope composition of leaf cellulose is mostly driven by isotopic variation in leaf sucrose. Plant, Cell and Environment, doi: 10.1111/pce.14362
Perulli, G.D.; Peters, R.L.; Von Arx, G.; Grappadelli, L.C.; Manfrini, L.; Cherubini, P., 2022: Learning from the past to improve in the future: tree-ring wood anatomy as retrospective tool to help orchard irrigation management. In: Xiloyannis, C.; Dichio, B.; Mininni, A.N. (eds), 2022: Proceedings of the IX international symposium on irrigation of horticultural crops. IX international symposium on irrigation of horticultural crops, Matera, Italy. 179-188. doi: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2022.1335.21
Nehemy, M.F.; Benettin, P.; Allen, S.T.; Steppe, K.; Rinaldo, A.; Lehmann, M.M.; McDonnell, J.J., 2022: Phloem water isotopically different to xylem water: potential causes and implications for ecohydrological tracing. Ecohydrology, 15, 3: e2417 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1002/eco.2417
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Master thesis
Open Master thesis in the group Mycorrhiza, Research Unit Forest Dynamics
Seasonal and spatial genetic patterns of a natural population of Burgundy truffles (Tuber aestivum)
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Population dynamics in 16 natural Burgundy truffle sites
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Development of mycorrhiza colonization of inoculated trees in a Burgundy truffle plantation (Tuber aestivum)
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Small-scale distribution of individuals and mating types of the widespread mycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum
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Where are the fathers? Small-scale distribution of individuals and mating types of Burgundy truffles (Tuber aestivum) in natural truffle locations
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Is the population structure of the widespread mycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum influenced by the water availability in the soil and the genetics of the host plant?
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